Even Better

Today we drove to Central Market for dinner and some Seven Generation kitchen cleaner to replace my Waterpik Aquia (a sad story that I will not recount in this space . . . sniff).

All of our meals now involve C&D eating, too, so they ate sauteed carrots, slippery mung bean noodles, and little bitty nibbles of water chestnuts. After our little family covered the concrete floor beneath our patio table with a sprinkle of orange and white in the style of Pollock, Matt and I realized that we should go out to eat more often. The babies enjoy eating and people-watching, and, even better, we don't have to clean the floor when we're done.

At home the biggest culinary hit this weekend was lightly steamed haricots vert. That's good. Skinny little green beans are easy to clean up.

I think the babies have confused the sign for "milk" with the sign for "mommy." I should fix that before they start school.

I also need to fix our sleep habits. I think Carmen has taken after her mother and turned into a nighttime dawdler (see the time of those post). Tonight she ate, pottied, rocked, then ate, pottied, and rocked again before falling asleep. I suppose she just wanted to make sure I was able to watch Desperate Housewives (and Extreme Home Makeover before, and Grey's Anatomy after).